In February, Varda SkyTeam Aerospace Team, representing our university and our faculty in domestic and international space and aviation field, applied to the 2nd design competition organized by Teknofest (3000m) in the scope of  high-altitude rocket. The team handed in  the "preliminary design report" and qualified for the the next stage with the rockets they designed and finished their analysis in March. After completing the mechanical and electronic production of rockets they designed they have successfully completed the "reporting critical design" stage. International participants from the university was one of the 36 teams out of 570 that will launch rockets. The final stage of "general report of the launching" is successfully completed adn the team was entitled to launch to be held on September 4-10 from Aksaray Salt Lake.


Varda SkyTeam ranked as 4th at Space and Technology Festival 'TEKNOFEST' orginised by the Foundation of Turkey Technology Team and Turksat Cooperation.